Demonstration of online spectrum defragmentation enabled by OpenFlow in software-defined elastic optical networks

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a control-plane framework to realize online spectrum defragmentation (DF) in software-defined elastic optical networks. Experimental results show that the spectrum DF enabled by OpenFlow reduces the blocking probability effectively.

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